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Kumara Times, Issue 1695, 6 March 1882, Page 2

The quarterly licensing meetings for the purpose of taking into consideration all applications for certificates for such licenses as by the Licensing Act, 1881, are authorised to be granted by the Licensing Committees, will be held—for the Licensing District of Arahura, at the Court House, Stafford, on Wednesday next, the Bth inst.; for the Licensing District of Hohonu, at the Court House* Greenstone, on Thursday next, the 9th inst. ; and for the Licensing District of the Borough of Kumara, on Friday, the 10th inst.; at each place at noon. It will be seen that Trickett and Hanlan have at last come to terms, and a match is arranged to take place on the usual Thames course, on Monday, the Ist of May.

The (Gazette of the 23rd ult. notifies the appointment of Henry Hawthorne Grant Ralfe, Esq., to be Clerk at Palmerston and Hawksbnry of the Resident Magistrate’s Court for the district of Oamaru, from the 17 th February. The same Gazette announces that Mr Alexander Hay Miller, of Kumara, miner, has deposited at the Patent Office, Wellington, a specification of a patent for concrete blocks for sluicing purposes ; and the Patent Officer appoints a day in May next for hearing the application for said patent and all objections thereto. In Trinity Church, Greymouth, last night, the Rev. Mr Kempthorne preached a special thanksgiving sermon on the providential escape of Her Majesty the Queen. The hymns and music of the service were also specially selected for the occasion. The Wellington correspondent of the Christchurch Press telegraphed on the 28th ult.: —“ The Department of Justice is abolished from to-night as a separate department. On and after to-morrow all Justice business will be conducted in the Colonial Secretary’s office, under Mr G. S. Cooper, Under-Secretary for the Colony, as permanent head. When I say ‘ permanent ’ I only use the term in its official sense, because he will only take charge of the Justice division tentatively until he finds whether he can continue to manage it without detriment to his other duties. No difficulty is, however, anticipated in this respect, and the arrangement will in all probability be a lasting one. Mr R. G. Fountain, Under-Secre-tary for Justice, retires to-night from office, after being twenty-two years in the Government service. He will receive full compensation allowance, but not a pension, as, notwithstanding the length of his service, he has not attained the age at which a pension could legally be awarded him. lamin a position to say that the Government greatly regret to lose his services, as he is admittedly an able and valuable officer, who has worked will and efficiently, but under the rearrangements there remains little for him to do as a highly paid chief officer, and I understand he prefers retiring on his allowance to taking any subordinate position. Other changes will be made in the personnel of that branch of service, and the cost generally will be materially reduced, although, of course, not to the extent of £30,000, as reported, which I pointed out at the time was an obvious exaggeration. I hear that the other departments of service will come under review when Ministers reassemble, in order to ascertain whether any further retrenchment is practicable, and some is tolerably certain to be carried out.” Tenders for the construction of a track between Galway Beach to join the Tunnel Track, over Gillespie’s Bluff, Okarito, close at the County Council Chambers at 6 p.m. to-morrow. Special attention is called to Smith and Barkley’s genuine cheap sale. Great reductions, and 2s (kl cash in the pound returned to every cash buyer.—See price list.— [Advt.]